Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-09

held last night.
IN THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
quorum was present at the appointed hour
of meeting After the reading of the minutes
cf the preceding meeting, no business ap.
nearing, recess was taken. After an
in,ermission of abou; twenty minutes, some
PAPERS which had been acted upon Big the
Common Council were received from that
hoard and their action concurred in.
Mr. Bryant, from the Committee on
streets. explained why the bill for renum.
hrriug the houses of the city had rot been
reported lrcm his committee. 1t appears
iha, the CON mttee are deferriug action I'M
Ii, q uew Survey ofthe thoroughiares OF the
civ is made. The speaker said it in no way
retarded the introduction Of the free deliy.
er, SYSTEM Ms was imagined by some.
Mr. Strauss was averse to adopting the
Till, anyhow, rs the money which would be
expended in carrying out its provisions
could be devoted to repairing the streets.
Mr. Smith moved that the committee be
discharged from the further consideration of
tie matter, and that the Aldermen act on
The tiu forthwith He saw no reason for
d,fening action until a new survey of the
ci;y could be made.
MIR Bryant said he would be glad to be
relieved from any further labor in the mat
ter, and again explained. the reasons the
committee urged for not reporting on the
bill earlier Three members of the commit
tee had taken the same view OF the SUBJECT.
Mr.. Strauss said the bill was not before
the board, and would not be until properly
reported from committee hence Mr.
smiths motion could not be entertained
aud debate was useless at this time. Let
4 ooftn hon
the committee would probably be ready to
report. 1t was not deferential to the Com
mittee on Streets to discuss the bill now
Mr.. Smith dsclaimed any intention of
discourtesy. His motion, however, was in
order; he had seen the same thing done
often. The power which referred bill TO
committee had authority to relieve the same
from its further consideration. There was
nothing supplementary in that. The
Committee on Streets had had the bill in
their hands since last December, and having
failed to report it Council had all power to
discharge them from its further considera-
tion aud bring the matter up whenever
deemed advisable.
Mr.. Strauss again urged his objections,
aud. af er some further discussion, at the sug-
gestion Of the President Mr.. Smith with
drew MS motion and the board adjourned.
COMMON COUNCIL.
At the regular meeting of the Board, last
night, quorum gathered fifteen minutes
after the hour OF assembling.
The Mayor communicated 10 the councils
the letter of General Supt. Carson giving the
reasons why non-subscribers TO the city tele-
phone system are not allowed TO use the
Washington telephones. One reason for ex-
Guiding all non subscribers from the Wash
ington line was the hope OF increasing our
list of exchange subscribers or preventing 1t
from growing smaller" Another reason
against allowing non-subscrbers to use The
Washington line appears to us discrimina.
lion against our Exchange subscribers upon
whom We rely TO maintain the Exchange"
He concludes, I'VE are ready TO hear any
thing his honor, the mayor, Or the honorable
city council, may have to say IN The mat.
ter" The matter was referred to the cCm.
mittee on general laws
On application for the raising of lot and
removing nuisance on the southwest cor
ner of Princess and Alfred streets,
After some discussion by Messrs. Brent,
Sweeney, Snowden, Fisher, Goodrich
and other,, it was stated that the lot
belonged to Miss Quisenberry, and was
managed by her agent here, for whom the
superintendent OF police was raising the lot
gradually. 1t was alleged that this process
is too slow
Mr.. Fisher said that this lot had been q
source OF disease to that section OF the city.
One of his drivers had had very sick fam
iy from the effects OF this lot, and two OF
his children had died. There was propo'
sal that be should sue for damages, but he
was persuaded out of it.
The subject WAS referred to the commit
tee on streets.
Mr.. President "Mr. Snowden have you
anything TO tell us about the iron works."
Mr. Snowden: Nothing, sir"
An appropriation bill Of $3.50 for the pur'
chase of street roller having come in from
the Alderman, several members asked an
explanation.
Mr. Brent from the committee on streets,
explained that besides its great cost,
steam roller wonld be too heavy for new
cobble stone Streets but with this roller
they could place light load on the streets
at first and then heavier load further on.
The roller would be made here by Mr.. w.
s. Moore
On motion, the appropriation was post
poned and the board adjourned.